A DOOR supervisor at a Solihull night club was sprayed in the face with CS gas when he went to help colleagues who were ejecting a drunken customer, a court heard.

The spray caused Carl Insall’s eyes to sting for two hours after the incident, Warwick Crown Court was told.

Luke Cogan pleaded guilty to possessing a prohibited CS gas canister and also admitted possessing cocaine.

Cogan, 23, of Heybarnes Road, Hay Mills, was sentenced to seven months in prison suspended for 12 months and ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work.

But unemployed Cogan was not ordered to pay any compensation to Mr Insall following the incident at The House night club in High Street, Solihull.

Prosecutor Neil Bannister said that in November last year Mr Insall, the door supervisor at The House, escorted someone out of the premises at 2.25am.

He was on his way back inside when he was asked to assist two colleagues who were ejecting Cogan from an area known as The Loft.